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Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle – The Vienna Circle and Wittgenstein. A Critical Reconsideration
Research and publications on Wittgenstein and on the Vienna Circle of Logical Empiricism have been steadily increasing in recent decades....
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A Rabbi Among the Apostates? Josef Schächter and Religion in the Vienna Circle
Josef Schächter (1901–1994) was the single member of the Vienna Circle who consistently sought to reconcile the scientific worldview with religion....
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Money and Philosophy in Vienna: Otto Neurath and Ludwig Wittgenstein
I identify and discuss cross-disciplinary, intellectual, social, and personal connections as they relate to the philosophical contributions of two...
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Popper’s Early Life in Vienna
Karl Raimund Popper was born on July 28, 1902, at Himmelhof in Ober Saint Veit on the Western outskirts of Vienna, the capital of...
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Review: Günther Sandner, Weltsprache ohne Worte. Rudolf Modley, Margaret Mead und das Glyphs-Projekt, Turia + Kant 2022; Christopher Burke, Wim Jansen, Soft propaganda, special relationships, and a new democracy, Adprint and Isotype 1942–1948. Uitgeverij de Buitenkant 2022
Two new publications deal with the visual communication of knowledge and the possibility of universally understandable symbolic languages as...
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Review: Ilse Korotin, Amalia M. Rosenblüth-Dengler (1892-1979). Philosophin und Bibliothekarin. Biografische Spuren eines Frauenlebens zwischen Aufbruch und Resignation, Praesens Verlag 2021
The life of the philosopher and librarian Amalia Rosenblüth (1892–1979), who was in touch with the Lemberg-Warsaw-School (Lemberg-Warschauer-Schule)...
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The Circumstances of Edgar Zilsel’s Failed Habilitation. A Case-Study on the Instigations of Anti-Semitic and Conservative Academic Networks in the 1920s at the University of Vienna
Edgar Zilsel’s habilitation attempt in 1923/24 has been researched for the last four decades. Most reconstructions attributed its failure mainly to...
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Ernest Nagel: A Biography
This paper provides a summary and overview of Ernest Nagel’s life, based on his archive correspondence with members of the Vienna Circle and other...
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Review:A. W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson, and Sven Schlotter (Eds.), Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings. The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1. Oxford University Press 2019, 528 pp., ISBN: 9780198748403
This first volume of The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap includes Carnap’s published writings from 1921 when he submitted his dissertation Der Raum...
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Major Contacts with Stimulating Initiatives of Analytical Philosophy and the Vienna Circle
In this country philosophy had been cultivated for a long time as an explication and very rarely as a process of fructification of the ideas that had...
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From the Problem of Genius to the Integration of Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science: Edgar Zilsel’s Life and Work Viewed in the Context of Recent Historiography and Research
Edgar Zilsel (1891–1944) was a typical outsider for several reasons – as a Jew, socialist, and scholar outside the university aiming at an integrated...
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Waismann in the Vienna Circle
Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau provides us with a history of Waismann’s time in the Vienna Circle. Waismann is often taken to have reported...
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Brentano’s Appointment to the University of Vienna
Franz Brentano is seen by many historians of philosophy as a leading representative of Austrian Philosophy. Up to now nobody has cared to answer the...
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Building a New Thursday Circle. Carnap and Frank in Prague
In 1949, Philipp Frank claimed that he and Rudolf Carnap built up a new center for the scientific world conception in Prague between 1931 and 1935....
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Introduction: Franz Brentano in Vienna
The publication of this collection of essays coincides with the marked interest, in recent years, in Brentano’s philosophy, so that, as Tim Crane...
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Franz Alt
Franz Alt is one of the founders of modern computer science who studied at the University of Vienna with Kurt Gödel under Rudolf Carnap. The...
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Introduction: From Spying to Canonizing—Ayer and His Language, Truth and Logic
This chapter serves as an introduction to the content and context of A.J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic. It argues that Ayer’s book did more than...
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Mario Ageno and the status of biophysics
This essay focuses on Mario Ageno (1915–1992), initially director of the physics laboratory of the Italian National Institute of Health and later...